Courtney Ellison
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Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia studying bacterial cell biology 🔬🧫🏳️🌈
Excited to share the newest preprint from the lab for my first post! Driven by
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with Lynne Howell we show the protein FimX has diverged in function away from regulating pilus extension to instead regulate pilus localization in A. baylyi
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FimX regulates type IV pilus localization via the Pil-Chp chemosensory system in Acinetobacter baylyi
Type IV pili (T4P) are widespread dynamic appendages required for diverse prokaryotic behaviors including twitching motility, biofilm formation, and DNA uptake leading to natural transformation. Altho...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.21.655318v1.article-metrics
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